um, well, i have my friends, all my friends i love their work, you know, deborah hedge, miranda hitchcock, you know, eric gainsworth, you know, there are all kinds of writers who we know each other, and they're excellent writers. so, but i think when it comes to, you know, who influences me the most it would be probably the ones that i've named. and darcy mcnick old from, he was turn of the century flathead. some of the writers who are also very capable of saying little with, saying a lot with few words, um. scott momaday has a brilliant novel, very difficult. took me three tries to get into it. so those are -- and they are, those are fairly well known writers. but most of us aren't, you know, the thing is that there are some -- it's a world of token writers that you hear about a few, and there's only room for a few. it's like when -- it's like applying for a job and saying, oh, we already hired an indian, you know? it's not like whether you're a writer or not. it's like, oh, we're not thinking of you as a professional, we're thinking of you as an ethnic whatever. and, um, it's the same w